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Directory database · last checked Sep 24, 2026

Where to submit your startup (2026): what’s free, what’s dofollow, checked one by one

447 startup, SaaS and AI directories. 347 are free to submit to, and 251 gave a dofollow link when we inspected a live listing. We opened each one’s own submit and pricing pages, so you know the price, the link and the review process before you spend an afternoon on forms.

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Directories
447
18 categories
Dofollow (verified)
251
of 387 with a checked link
Free to submit
347
free, or with a free plan
DR 50+
215
of 372 with a Domain Rating by Ahrefs

Method

How we check every directory

Every row below comes from a visit to that directory’s own site. Where we couldn’t verify something, the row says so.

Read the full method
  1. Step 1

    We open their own pages

    Homepage, submit page, pricing and guidelines, on the date shown on each row. Prices and rules come only from there, and each directory’s page lists the pages we opened.

  2. Step 2

    We read a live listing’s link

    We find a product that’s already listed and read the rel attribute on its outbound link. No rel means dofollow; nofollow, ugc or sponsored pass little or no ranking value. No listing to inspect means “Unverified”.

  3. Step 3

    We add DR and popularity

    DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs, pulled from Ahrefs’ free API: a 0–100 score of the site’s backlinks. Tranco, a research top-sites ranking, adds popularity: lower is more visited. Neither is a Google metric.

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All 447 directories

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  • Web Design Weekly

    web-design-weekly.com

    A free Wednesday newsletter with links to web design and development news, articles and tutorials, running since 2011. It's read by web designers and front-end developers. Links can be suggested…

    NewslettersFreeUnverifiedChecked
    DR48Unranked

  • EmiliaRomagnaStartUp

    emiliaromagnastartup.it

    EmiliaRomagnaStartUp is the Emilia-Romagna regional government's portal for local innovative startups, with a searchable startup directory and map plus news, calls and services. Innovative startups…

    RegionalFreeDofollowChecked
    DR47Tranco#479,195

  • TOOOLS.design

    toools.design

    A hand-curated directory of 2,000+ design tools and resources (inspiration, icons, mockups, UX, colour, typography, AI) run since 2019, with a weekly newsletter. Accepted tools appear as cards in…

    DesignFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR47Tranco#1,462,712

  • BAI.tools

    bai.tools

    A 'best AI tools' directory with category pages and newly added tools. You can list for free and wait a while, or pay to go live within a day and be featured.

    AI toolsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR47Tranco#1,974,447

  • Launchit

    launchit.site

    A startup launch directory for indie makers, SaaS founders and AI builders, with a dated launch feed, a leaderboard and category pages. Visitors are makers and early users browsing what shipped…

    Product launch platformsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR47Unranked

  • APIs.io

    apis.io

    APIs.io is a search engine and catalog of API providers built around the APIs.json format, with pages covering specs, plans, rate limits and agent-facing artifacts such as MCP servers. A listing…

    Developer toolsFreeDofollowChecked
    DR46Tranco#321,002

  • Public APIs

    publicapis.dev

    A collaborative, categorised list of 1,400+ public APIs with a companion website. If your product offers a self-serve, documented API, it can be added via pull request and gets a card linking to it.

    Developer toolsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR46Tranco#2,293,978

  • LaunchIt

    launchit.fast

    A small independent launchpad for early-stage startups where every product gets a permanent page with its story, screenshots, votes and reviews, organised into weekly and monthly leaderboards. Its…

    Product launch platformsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR46Unranked

  • Web Tools Weekly

    webtoolsweekly.com

    A weekly newsletter for front-end developers that is mostly lists of new tools, libraries and apps, grouped by theme. It's curated by one person, Louis Lazaris. The home page says it has about…

    NewslettersFreeDofollowChecked
    DR46Unranked

  • Comparateur-IA

    comparateur-ia.com

    A French AI tool comparison site with 1,000+ tools, reviews, head-to-head 'battles', top-10 lists and guides, with sister sites in Italian, Spanish, English and German. Tool makers create a partner…

    AI toolsFree + paidSponsoredChecked
    DR45Unranked

  • AIMOJO

    aimojo.io

    An AI tools directory with 3,500+ listings, coupons, user reviews and AI news. Paid submissions get a reviewed listing within 24 hours, and the higher tier adds site-wide featured placement.

    AI toolsPaidNofollowChecked
    DR44Tranco#303,218

  • AI Collection

    thataicollection.com

    A directory of 4,000+ generative AI applications that grew out of a popular GitHub list. A paid listing gets an indexed page, a spot in 'Latest Additions' on the site and the GitHub page, and the…

    AI toolsPaidDofollowChecked
    DR44Tranco#1,243,652

  • AI Tools for Marketers

    aitoolsmarketer.com

    A small, editorially researched directory of AI marketing tools grouped by marketing job (ad creative, content, CRO, lifecycle, social, AI search). Each entry cites and dates its pricing, and every…

    AI toolsFree + paidNofollowChecked
    DR44Unranked

  • Øresund Startups

    oresundstartups.com

    Øresund Startups is a news site and startup list covering Danish and Swedish startups around Copenhagen, Malmö and Lund. Founders fill in a form to have their company added to the regional startup…

    RegionalFreeDofollowChecked
    DR44Unranked

  • aitools.fyi

    aitools.fyi

    A curated AI tools directory for builders, organised by category with deals and a blog. Submissions go through an external form run by Boost My Tool, which can also send your tool to a few other…

    AI toolsPaidDofollowChecked
    DR43Tranco#699,239

  • AiHubs

    aihubs.ai

    A small AI tools directory with collections, categories and tags, aimed at makers who want an inexpensive listing with SEO links. Free listings need a reciprocal link; very low-cost paid plans add…

    AI toolsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR42Unranked

  • Echo JS

    echojs.com

    Echo JS is a small, community-voted news site for JavaScript links, similar in spirit to Hacker News but focused on JS libraries, articles and tools. Registered users can submit links, which rise or…

    Developer toolsFreeNofollowChecked
    DR42Unranked

  • NoCodeFinder

    nocodefinder.com

    A no-code and low-code tool directory organised by builder type (app, website, backend, automation, AI chatbot and more), with a 'get your stack' helper. Listed tools get a profile page within their…

    No-codeFreeMixedChecked
    DR42Unranked

  • Dark Mode Design

    darkmodedesign.com

    Dark Mode Design is a hand-curated showcase of websites with strong dark themes. Each tile links straight to the featured site, and new additions are posted on the curator's social accounts.

    DesignFreeDofollowChecked
    DR41Unranked

  • FreeStuff.dev

    freestuff.dev

    FreeStuff.dev is a tag-based list of free tools, free tiers and services for developers, from hosting and databases to design assets. The data lives in a public GitHub repo, so adding a tool means…

    Developer toolsFreeNofollowChecked
    DR41Unranked

  • LaunchBoosts

    launchboosts.com

    An AI tools directory and launch platform with a weekly 'Launching This Week' board, community voting, leaderboards and alternatives pages. Free listings publish instantly if you embed their badge…

    AI toolsFree + paidNofollowChecked
    DR41Unranked

  • PublicAPIs.io

    publicapis.io

    PublicAPIs.io is a searchable directory of free and public APIs grouped into categories like finance, weather and machine learning. Listed APIs get an entry developers can browse and bookmark; a…

    Developer toolsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR41Unranked

  • CTA.gallery

    cta.gallery

    CTA.gallery collects call-to-action designs from across the web, from buttons and forms to pricing and newsletter blocks. A featured CTA gets its own page crediting the site and designer with links…

    DesignFreeDofollowChecked
    DR40Unranked

  • Dev Resources

    devresourc.es

    A searchable collection of 3,000+ developer resources across dozens of categories, backed by an open GitHub repo. Tools are added by pull request and appear as cards linking straight to the product.

    Developer toolsFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR40Unranked

  • Productivity Directory

    productivity.directory

    Productivity Directory catalogs productivity apps across dozens of categories, from to-do lists and calendars to automation, password managers and habit trackers. Each listing has its own page with…

    ProductivityFreeDofollowChecked
    DR40Unranked

DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: a 0–100 score of a site’s backlinks, higher is stronger. It isn’t a Google metric. Tranco rank is a research top-sites ranking: lower means more popular. How we check each directory

DR leaderboard: the top 100 directories by Domain Rating

Browse by category

Each category page explains what that kind of directory is good for and what to prepare before you submit.

Where to submit, by niche

All niche lists

Shortlists for one kind of product, audience or country, each with advice on what matters when you submit there.

AI products

AI agents104GPTs and AI assistants100

Apps, extensions and plugins

Browser extensions7iOS apps6Android apps6Mac apps15Desktop software14Figma plugins9Templates and UI kits14SaaS integrations45

By kind of software

Open-source projects45Self-hosted software12Developer tools71APIs32No-code tools10B2B SaaS67Marketing tools34Design tools30Productivity tools11

By audience and stage

Indie hackers54Pre-launch startups31Newsletters that feature tools63Developer newsletters21B2B software review sites48Software alternatives sites24Startup databases43

By link, price and review

Free directories347Dofollow directories251Free dofollow directories199Directories with human review322

By country and region

Startups in Europe34Startups in Germany6Startups in Asia15

How we check each directory

What “checked” means

We opened the directory’s own pages (homepage, submit page, pricing, FAQ or guidelines) on the date shown and recorded what they said. Each directory page lists the exact pages we opened. Summaries and tips are written in our own words. If we couldn’t confirm something, the page says so instead of guessing.

How link types are verified

Where we could, we opened a live listing and inspected the outbound link to the listed product: no rel attribute means followed (dofollow), rel="nofollow", "ugc" or "sponsored" means it passes little or no ranking value. When we couldn’t find a listing to inspect, the link type is marked “Unverified”. Directories can change this at any time, so check your own listing once it’s live.

What DR is

DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: Ahrefs’ 0–100, logarithmic score of how strong a site’s backlink profile is compared with every other site Ahrefs crawls. We fetch it from Ahrefs’ free API for each directory’s own domain and refresh it regularly; the directory page shows when. It measures links, not visitors or relevance, and it isn’t a Google ranking factor. Directories hosted on a shared platform (a GitHub list, a subreddit, a Medium or Notion page) show no DR, because the platform’s number says nothing about that one list.

What the Tranco rank is

Tranco is a top-sites ranking made for research. It combines several public top-sites lists over 30 days, which makes it harder to manipulate than any single list. Lower is more popular: #1,000 is far more visited than #500,000. It’s a rough popularity signal, not a backlink metric. “Unranked” means we have no rank for that site.

Pricing

Prices come only from the directory’s own site on the day we checked. We don’t take prices from other lists. Prices change, so confirm on the submit page before you pay.

Why some pages are thinner

Some directories publish very little about how they work. A directory page is only offered to search engines when it has a real summary (120+ characters) and at least 2 verified facts such as link type, pricing details, tips or a Tranco rank. The rest stay visible here but aren’t indexed.

We don’t sell placement

Directories don’t pay to be listed or ranked here. The default order is by Tranco rank, then name; you can also sort by highest DR.